Commission Decision

of 29 December 2004

amending Decisions 2003/746/EC and 2003/848/EC as regards the reallocation of the Community’s financial contribution to Member States’ TSE eradication and monitoring programmes for 2004

(notified under document number C(2004) 5396)

(2004/922/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field(1), and in particular Article 24(5) and (6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Decision 2003/746/EC of 14 October 2003 on the list of programmes for the eradication and the monitoring of certain TSEs qualifying for a financial contribution from the Community in 2004(2), lists the programmes submitted to the Commission by the Member States for the monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) qualifying for a Community financial contribution in 2004. That Decision also sets out the proposed rate and maximum amount of the contribution for each programme.

(2) Commission Decision 2003/848/EC of 28 November 2003 approving the TSE eradication and monitoring programmes of Member States and certain acceding Member States for 2004 and fixing the level of the Community’s financial contribution(3), approves the programmes listed in Decision 2003/746/EC and lays down the maximum amounts of the Community’s financial contribution.

(3) Decision 2003/848/EC provides for progress reports to be forwarded by the Member States to the Commission every month. An analysis of those reports indicates that certain Member States will not utilise their full allocation for 2004, while others will spend in excess of the allocated amount.

(4) The Community’s financial contribution to certain of those programmes therefore needs to be adjusted. It is appropriate to reallocate funding from programmes of Member States which are not using their full allocation to those that are exceeding it. The reallocation should be based on the most recent information on the expenditure actually incurred by the concerned Member States.

(5) Decisions 2003/746/EC and 2003/848/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1 U.K.

Decision 2003/746/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2 U.K.

Decision 2003/848/EC is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 4(2), ‘EUR 745 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 383 000’;

2.

in Article 6(2), ‘EUR 21 733 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 24 735 000’;

3.

in Article 8(2), ‘EUR 6 283 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 6 401 000’;

4.

in Article 10(2), ‘EUR 4 028 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 4 346 000’;

5.

in Article 11(2), ‘EUR 1 675 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 1 789 000’;

6.

in Article 12(2), ‘EUR 1 012 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 1 177 000’;

7.

in Article 15(2), ‘EUR 7 726 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 4 269 000’;

8.

in Article 17(2), ‘EUR 103 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 159 000’;

9.

in Article 19(2), ‘EUR 353 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 399 000’;

10.

in Article 21(2), ‘EUR 5 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 1 000’;

11.

in Article 22(2), ‘EUR 755 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 927 000’;

12.

in Article 24(2), ‘EUR 435 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 573 000’;

13.

in Article 25(2), ‘EUR 1 160 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 3 014 000’;

14.

in Article 26(2), ‘EUR 490 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 1 006 000’;

15.

in Article 27(2), ‘EUR 3 210 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 671 000’;

16.

in Article 28(2), ‘EUR 675 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 704 000’;

17.

in Article 29(2), ‘EUR 30 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 5 000’;

18.

in Article 30(2), ‘EUR 255 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 275 000’;

19.

in Article 31(2), ‘EUR 5 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 3 000’;

20.

in Article 32(2), ‘EUR 5 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 34 000’;

21.

in Article 33(2), ‘EUR 7 460 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 6 652 000’;

22.

in Article 34(2), ‘EUR 740 000’ is replaced by ‘EUR 1 360 000’.

Article 3 U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 December 2004.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission

ANNEX U.K.

Annexes I and II to Decision 2003/746/EC are replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX I

List of programmes for the monitoring of TSEs

Rate and Maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease	Member States	Rate-purchase of test kits (%)	Maximum amount(in EUR)
TSEs	Belgium	100	3 351 000
	Denmark	100	2 351 000
	Germany	100	15 611 000
	Greece	100	383 000
	Spain	100	4 854 000
	France	100	24 735 000
	Ireland	100	5 386 000
	Italy	100	6 401 000
	Luxembourg	100	158 000
	Netherlands	100	4 346 000
	Austria	100	1 789 000
	Portugal	100	1 177 000
	Finland	100	1 060 000
	Sweden	100	358 000
	United Kingdom	100	4 269 000
	Cyprus	100	144 000
	Estonia	100	159 000
	Malta	100	37 000
	Slovenia	100	399 000
Total			76 968 000

ANNEX II

List of programmes for the eradication of Scrapie

Maximum amount of the Community financial contribution

Disease	Member States	Rate	Maximum amount(in EUR)
Scrapie	Denmark	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	1 000
	Germany	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	927 000
	Greece	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	450 000
	Spain	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	573 000
	France	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	3 014 000
	Ireland	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	1 006 000
	Italy	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	671 000
	Netherlands	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	704 000
	Austria	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	5 000
	Portugal	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	275 000
	Finland	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	3 000
	Sweden	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	34 000
	United Kingdom	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	6 652 000
	Cyprus	50 % culling, 100 % genotyping	1 360 000
Total			15 675 000’

(1)

OJ L 224, 18.9.1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Regulation (EC) 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

(2)

OJ L 269, 21.10.2003, p. 24.

(3)

OJ L 322, 9.12.2003, p. 11.